Things you miss from past sims games, which you would like to see in the Sims 4.

The chemistry and attraction system in Sims 2

Being able to actually have sims pull utensils out of the draws when they are cooking and better reactions!

The biggest thing for me is actual NPCs. Specifically the ones from the sims 1. The sims 2 had a couple nice ones too, but they were already a little less interesting.

I mostly love the Oldtown NPCs from unleashed. The saxophone player, fortune teller and the music man with the monkey! And of course miss Crumplebottom. The fact that they were actual Non Playable characters, with their own specific clothes, behaviors and actions, made the neighborhoods seem so much more lively and thematic. It added versatility beyond the randomly generated sims we get now, and that is extremely important for the whole believability of the game. To me the randomness we get now really really breaks immersion.

And the odd people that were walking around in Magic Town from Makin Magic, I really miss those too. They made the whole magic world seem so much more weird, wonky, dark, special and hidden.

The Sims 4's characters all seem to be quirky 20-year-olds, no matter if they are a teen or and elder, whatever occupation or personality they have. There are no stuffy old-fashioned sims, or anything like that, and that's just such a miss.

I miss the Heartshape Bed, Bunkbeds, Color Wheel, Textures, Eye lashes, Nails, Playable Babies, Shorter Teens, Cars, Boathouses, Into the Future, Horses, Werewolves, Fairies, Genies, Better Family Trees, Generations, Moonlight Falls, Bridgeport, More Traits, Fave Colors & Sign.

composting, the lounge interaction on beds/sofas, sims 3 food appliances, rabbit hole lots like the grocery store, burglars and firefighters, sims 3 lot sub-types (ex. dive/sports bars, fusion/vampire lounges, private/live show venues), slow dancing/couple dancing and ballet

I liked a lot of the stuff that Sims 3 generations had to offer for the teens - proms, teen parties, graduation is a semi-event (that parents could attend!), and just more involvement in teen life in general. I don't know how those things could be added at this point with parenthood already out and whatnot.

Fears and wants from Sims 2 and their memory system. It was so nice to be able to check what an elder sim had been up to his or her whole life